• Voterga et al. v. State of Georgia

    Publication Date: 2023-07-12
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Todd Harding, (Attorney at Law), Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Charlene McGowan, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, Russell Willard, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Elizabeth Vaughan, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0004

    Voting Machines That Eject Paper Ballots Marked to Confirm Electronic Votes Comply With Georgia Election Law

  • Knox et al. v. State of Georgia

    Publication Date: 2023-06-22
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Education Law | Government
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter Crane Canfield, Brian Charles Lea, Sharnell S. Simon, (Jones Day), Atlanta, Amanda K. Rice, (Jones Day), Detroit, for appellant.
    for defendant: Annette M. Cowart, Russell David Willard, Christopher M. Carr, Bryan Keith Webb, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee; Sarah Brewerton-Palmer, Michael Adam Caplan, (Caplan Cobb LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.

    Case Number: S23A0167

    Trial Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Adjudicate Challenge to Statute Permitting Firearm Possession on College Campuses

  • The Augusta Press, Inc. v. Roundtree

    Publication Date: 2023-06-12
    Practice Area: Government | Public Records
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Hudson, (Hull Barrett, PC), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Randolph Frails, (Attorney at Law), Augusta, Tameka Haynes, (Frails & Wilson), Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0552

    Sheriff Deputy's Incident-Response Body-Cam Footage Not Subject to Disclosure Under Georgia's Open Records Act

  • Favorito et al. v. Wan et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-07
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Todd Harding, (Attorney at Law), Griffin, Paul Kunst, (Paul C. Kunst PC), Barnesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amanda Clark Palmer, Donald Samuel, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC), Atlanta, for appellee; Robert Cheeley, (Cheeley Law Group LLC), Alpharetta, Preston Haliburton, (Haliburton Law Firm), Atlanta, Charles Joyner, (C. David Joyner, P.C.), Buford, Dominique Martinez, David Lowman, Cheryl Ringer, Steven Rosenberg, Kaye Burwell Francesca Black, (Office of the Fulton County Attorney), Atlanta, Charlene McGowan, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, Gabrielle Holland, (Attorney at Law), Alpharetta, William Charles Bundren, (Bundren Law Group, PLLC), Frisco, for other party.

    Case Number: A22A0939

    Remand to Trial Court Necessary to Determine Plaintiffs' Standing to Sue County on Claims of Unlawful Dilution of Election Votes

  • The State et al. v. SASS Group, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-13
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law | Government
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Tina Michelle Piper, Cristina Maria Correia, Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Daniel Church, (The Church Law Firm, LLC), Roswell, Page Anthony Pate, (Pate, Johnson & Church, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Andrew (Andy) J. Welch, III, Warren Michael Tillery, Brandon Filson Palmer, (Smith, Welch, Webb & White, LLC), McDonough, John Elwin Stell, Jr., (Smith, , Welch, Webb & White, LLC), Winder, for Neutral Amicus.

    Case Number: S22A1243

    Suit For Declaratory Relief Naming Both State and County District Attorney as Defendants Was Barred by Sovereign Immunity

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  • Cardinale v. Westmoreland et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-07
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Cardinale, (Matthew Charles Esq. Inc.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Ashe, Matthew Sellers, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1678

    Court affirms in part and denies in part a series of orders addressing a private citizen's lawsuit against a city council under the Open Records and Open Meetings Acts

  • Butt v. Kemp

    Publication Date: 2023-04-06
    Practice Area: Government | Public Records
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sohail Butt, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Jennifer Colangelo, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1580

    Government's Failure to Respond to Request For Records Retention Policy Did Not Violate Open Records Act

  • Tibbetts v. Worth County School District et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-06
    Practice Area: Education Law | Employment Litigation | Government
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Cox, (Charles E. Cox, Jr., LLC), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Grant McBride, William White, Matthew Collum, (Smith, Welch, Webb & White), McDonough, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1542

    Teacher's Contract Was Renewed By Operation of Law, Precluding Sovereign Immunity Defense to Claim of Breach of Agreement

  • Lewis v. Gwinnett County et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-05
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sidney Moore, (The Moore Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, Michael Watson, (Watson Law Firm), Atlanta, Ibrahim Awad, (The Awad Law Firm, P.C.), Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tuwanda Williams, Melanie Jean-Noel, (Gwinnett County Law Department), Lawrenceville, for appellee; Nicole Stout, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Elise Wilson, (Strawinski & Stout, P.C.), Atlanta, for other party.

    Case Number: A22A1246

    Emergency COVID-19 Court Order Tolled Time For Providing Ante Litem Notice to County of Negligence Action

  • The Bondsman, Inc. et al. v. Keybo Taylor, Sheriff of Gwinnett County

    Publication Date: 2023-04-04
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Bowers, Jeremy Akin, Lucas Boggs, (Johnson Marlowe LLP), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sun Choy, Jacob Daly, (Freeman, Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, Robert Marcovitch, (Sinton Scott Minock & Kerew), Atlanta, Tuwanda Williams, (Gwinnett County Law Dept.), Lawrenceville, Preston Ehlers, Atlanta, for appellee; Kellye Moore, (Attorney at Law), Perry, for other party.

    Case Number: A22A1370

    Court vacates summary judgment order and remands for determination of whether a bondsperson did not meet financial obligations required for renewal of a license.